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>The good news is that we have the social technology of ... affordable safe high density cities, with parks and high-rises (plus the obligatory blackjack and hookers too!) ... where people can be next to their new and old friends at the same time ... oh my!

No such cities exist in the USA
Yeah - this UX has the potential to be dramatically improved.

I also went through that investigational phase. Needing to do that is a very clear sign of a UX that's suboptimally designed, IMO.
Weight loss did it for me. I was on 40mg Nexium and couldn't survive without the med every day. Then I was on a 3 month trip to Europe during which I dramatically lost weight and also ran out of the med. Quite incredibly, I realized I was fine without the med. The trip was 5 years ago and I've been keeping the weight off, it seem to be holding.
> do we fully understand the long-term risks of PPIs

The potential link between PPIs and dementia worries me a lot. I switched to H2 blockers when my symptoms decreased but they're not as good and you need to periodically get your liver function checked.
Who cares? It's just words. It's better than getting attacked while being paralyzed with indecision.
Can you describe how? I actually find playlist editing to be really easy on Apple Music/iTunes.
For what it's worth, this post just helped me explain several years of failure to wake from sleep state, across several different MSI-based machines, when I've connected them to an HDMI port in my TV. I think this debug is interesting in its own right, and unlike 99% of the content on this website, it was directly and immediately useful to me. I doubt I'm the only one, too.
Relying on mere “taste” is bad engineering. Engineers do need experience to make good decisions, yes. But surely we are able to come up with objective criteria of what makes a good abstraction vs. a bad abstraction. There will be trade-offs, as depending on context, some criteria will be more important than other (opposing) criteria. These are sometimes called “forces”. Experience is what leads an engineer in assessing and weighing the different present forces in the concrete situation.
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> We need a way to disable vehicle telemetry

It should have a standard UI for doing so, but if you are technically inclined it is usually trivial to do- pulling a fuse, or changing a setting over the OBD port.

However, you will lose useful features like advanced charging controls, and starting the HVAC remotely on EVs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524200
I second this, such posts are very generic, they are hard to disagree with, but also to agree with empathically as there are no clear examples of what is too much.

As someone who uses lots of layers and dependency injection I would like to be poked on where is that too much abstraction but I end up being no wiser.
Polite concern, check.

Um, it's the US causing all the problems ACTUALLY, check.

Lost faith in western media, check.

It can't be Russia because it doesn't make sense guys! Check.

"Time will tell", check.
That's not what we were discussing, but sure I'd agree with that.
The article did start off giving TCP as a good abstraction but then didn't follow up with examples of bad abstractions.

Dynamic typing is an example of an indirection masquerading as an abstraction. You end up carrying around an object and occasionally asking it whether it's an int64_t or a banana. You maybe think your type luggage will take you on exotic vacations when really in fact you take it on exotic vacations.
Yeah, here's what people get wrong: the equilibrium.

The problems are not in manufacturing but in the methods, which exist entirely for additional magic money profit.

Engineering solved most of the critical problems in manufacturing ( temporarily - in & for their time and partially even timelessly ) adequately in the past 30+ years. There's a lack of ( radical ) honesty.

It's cowardice.

Sue the right people, hack to unfuck insurance, the stock markets, and the different VC cycles and there won't be any social collapse at all.

Humanity would be 'anti-fragile' if it wasn't for the what? 400 - 500 million idiots on the stock and crypto markets - and now all the "GenAI" soft- and hardware people as well - half of which aren't even pot-committed and could pull out at any point in time.
> They've just legally given up all the coercive options, so the only tool left is complaint

My previous comment on this was unclear.

The very act of complaining about it betrays the idea that it's "freedom".

Either companies have the freedom to take without giving back, in which case forcing them to buy the software breaks those freedoms, but you shouldn't complain.

Or they do not have the freedom, in which case just sell the software normally.
Yes, the UNCLOS is ultimately just words, just like the Geneva convention, a formal declaration of war, a country's nuclear doctrine etc.

Words aren't as meaningless as you claim even at wartime.
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I suppose it could be like Cicero.

I was thinking more like the Les Grossman character from Tropic Thunder. The character was played by Tom Cruise.
I honestly don't believe that e.g. Apple couldn't relatively easily base their designs on a different underlying technology.

They do it all the time when they change nodes.
A different perspective from the outside: Nvidia's journey features three pivotal milestones that shaped its success:

- First, the 2006 acquisition of ATI by AMD solidified Nvidia's position as a dominant player in the industry.

- Second, Geoffrey Hinton's groundbreaking work on deep learning over 25 years laid the foundation for AI advancements that aligned perfectly with Nvidia's GPU capabilities.

- Third, Nvidia's recognition of its leadership in AI has propelled it to the forefront of the technology revolution.
Intel wasn't able to ship a competitive modem to Qualcomm and the whole point of the acquisition was to get rid of Qualcomm and even apple hasn't gotten a shipping version of a 5g modem for six years since the first intel modem started in 2018. This was really to vertically integrate the modem in all of the relevant Apple Silicon devices and it keeps going on...
You’re coming across as disagreeing with me, but it’s unclear about what. Your response to the out-of-context bit at the bottom seems to agree with my central statement about the negative framing of American values in the OP, so I’m very confused what your point is.
This is not an unpopular opinion you needed to make a new account for. None of us do.
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All of the streaming services are awful at discovery. They'll introduce you to stuff that you already like or stuff that people in your cohort like, which, 90% of the time, is what you already like.

I landed up going back to college/community radio for true discovery (i.e. you'll find stuff you hate AND stuff that you love from genres that you didn't know existed). I use Bandcamp to find/buy new music in genres I love and know well.

For people reading this who are interested in trying this out, these are the stations that I listen to:

- KEXP (Seattle, WA/Bay Area)

- KTRU (Houston, TX) <-- home station

- KPFT (Houston, TX) <-- home station

- WMSE (Milwaukee, WI)

- WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA)

- KVNO (Omaha, NE) <-- classical

- KCSM (San Mateo Area) <-- jazz

- SomaFM Indie Pop Rocks!

- SomaFM Metal Detector

You can also try scanning the lower end of your radio dial (under 93 MHz), as this is usually spectrum that's reserved for community and college radio stations. Some college stations still broadcast in AM, though this, and AM radio writ large, is dying out.

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While I'm on this soapbox: Apple Music's shuffle absolutely biases towards bigger/more popular artists.

I once had a few (like, between 10 and 20) Taylor Swift songs in my library in a 2000+ song playlist I used to shuffle in the mornings. I don't listen to her very often, and I didn't have any of her albums in my library at the time.

EVERY SINGLE TIME I'd shuffle all of the songs in this playlist or my library, Taylor Swift would get queued up way more than she should have given my listening history. I removed all of her songs from my library to get it to stop.

I get much more variety when I shuffle all of my _downloaded_ songs (which, I believe, is everything in my library).
I just search as normal and look in the playlists. Usually something in the top 2 or 3 results is a good one. I think they're ranked by number of saves or something? Not sure. The official ones labeled "Spotify" are also quite good.
H1-B visa terms, in the letter of the law and regulation, are protective of US citizen jobs and wages. In practice H1-B is used to depress wages and exploit H1-B workers. Framing this as a racism issue, especially by Elon, is a cynical ploy to set the people damaged by the way H1-B is used in practice against each other.
They are likely exercising transit passage, which has more protections under the UNCLOS than innocent passage.

That's not to say that nothing can be done, but that it's important to do the right thing, or we risk eroding the few hard-won rules we still have.
> Programs in most DT languages run directly (Lean, Idris, Adga, etc), code extraction is a Coq thing (and Isabelle, but Isabelle does not use DT). Some languages have type erasure, some don't. Some are explicitely concerned about type erasure (Idris), some don't.

Lean has proof irrelevance which means that any information that may be contained within the "proof" or "logical" part of the program is erased at runtime. It amounts to largely the same thing.
The whole point is that the W3C has been impotent when it comes to HTML for a decade now. They're not publishing anything Google wants in that domain because they're not publishing anything. HTML was taken out of the W3C's control because of their mismanagement it well before Google had a browser majority (let alone a monopoly).
A good fuzzy finder helps a lot with this. You can type something like `ccufFoo` to match `com.company.util.factories.FooWidgetFactory`. I use fzf.vim for this.

Thankfully my company has its own hosted LSP that supports Java (and every other language in our bazel monorepo) so I don’t have to mess around with Eclipse and JDTLS (what happened to eclim?). But at a prior company I just worked without an LSP and just did a lot of referencing Java docs in a browser and split screen files.
They didn't want this, they've been made to want this because that's what society expects out of them, due to how public transportation in this country sucks everywhere and the infrastructure in big cities is a joke. Worse, having kids in such places is terrible as childcare is expensive, there are few parks or things to do with kids that don't require you to pay for it, and the city itself isn't made for kids on strollers.

These people are now sicker, sadder, more isolated, and with less access to good jobs and education than before. Now the jobs are far away, requiring hour-long commutes and they can't even buy bread without driving, sometimes for a long time.

Whenever I visit Europe its such a wild experience, being able to take public transportation to many places, having parks all over the place, sometimes parks surrounded by restaurants and bars. It feels vibrant, with kids everywhere. I'm glad I have a large support group here in the US and we've made many friends in the burbs (mainly because they also have kids), but this is not the reality for a lot of folks.
> not as in "liberty" or "liberal world order" - political labels are weird

No, the core of the beef between leftists and liberals is over "liberty," or something that a liberal would call liberty and a leftist would not. Namely, property rights over financial assets. Liberals see these as a kind of liberty: "you own a farm, property rights over the farm connect the labor you do in upkeep and planting to the rewards you reap at harvest." Leftists argue that this might be a nice but temporary side effect and that the core purpose of financial assets is to ensure that rich people get paid for being rich in proportion to how rich they are, thereby establishing, reinforcing, and perpetuating a class hierarchy where the people on the bottom must constantly pay to exist while the people on top constantly get paid to exist. They would tell a different story: "Bill Gates owns the farmland, you do all the work, you pay him everything he asks for, and if it's not enough he replaces you." In turn, the liberal would contend that market competition keeps this in check and the leftist would contend that ever concentrating capital interests ensure robust competition on the bottom and absent competition on the top, slowly crushing any market competition favorable to the farmer. At this point, if it hasn't happened already, the liberal will start lobbing horrific tales of leftists abusing farmers and the leftist will start lobbing horrific tales of property rights being used to abuse farmers and the conversation descends into "whose atrocities are bigger / worse / more relevant" discourse.

If you haven't seen this kind of infighting, it's not because the philosophical rift doesn't exist, it's because actual leftism has been outside the Overton window of popular discourse in the United States for the last 50-70 years. McCarthy's Red Scare was the first push, dissolution of the New Deal Coalition was the last. Class Warfare rhetoric was frowned upon by the liberal + conservative majority and kept out of polite company. Now that populism is back in fashion, leftists have been looking to change that, but they have been having less success than the populist right. Watch this space, though.
I don’t get it. The whole point of asking the actors to say something is to have it end up in the script. I’m suggesting that whatever they want them to say is relevant to training some AI. Just a theory but in its hypothetical context it does make sense.
I have a pair of ASUS Vivobook laptops with Kingston NVMEs.

While running the factory install of Windows, those NVMEs would cause a BSOD every third or so boot. Clean install didn't help either, nor any driver or firmware update.

No Linux install has shown any signs of problems.
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A further issue is peer review quid pro quo corruption. The reviewer loves your paper but requests one small change: cite some of his papers and he’ll approve your paper.

I don’t know how prevalent this sort of corruption is (I haven’t read any statistical investigations) but I have heard of researchers complaining about it. In all likelihood it’s extremely prevalent in less reputable journals but for all we know it could be happening at the big ones.

The whole issue of citations functioning like a currency recalls Goodhart’s Law [1]:

”When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
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Another big miscalculation. Not as bad as if he said “deplorable”. But he needs to emphasize that he himself was H-1B, to communicate that it has value for whites.
Agreed but it’s not always my own code I am reading.
I tried to give it a shot this year. Autocomplete (and especially Co-pilot) works really well nowadays. What made me reconsider is actually how imports are sorted and organised - they differ from how IntelliJ does it, which all other developers in my team uses. It’s a tiny but nagging issue for which I haven’t found a solution. It doesn’t help that IntelliJ is spectacularly good out of the box hah…
I can't be too condescending with the number of typos I have to edit :D

I actually really like the message for 1 in 10,000. As a social outsider for much of my life, it helped me to learn that the way people dismissed my questions about common (to them) topics was more about their empathy and less about me.

But, these sorts of things are difficult to communicate via text media, so we thus persist.
And in the show he picked a bunch of cards because he got nervous, which kinda spoiled the trick.

Apparently in other sessions he was able to pick a single card. Insane!
That's an abuse of quantifiers, and an interesting one. You suggest that the judges become literal fashion police, each individual with the authority to remove a contestant whose clothes are not impressive in their personal opinion. That should indeed be protested against; it's a chess tournament and not a fashion show.

The word "to" is commonly interpreted to mean "for the purpose of" in this context. That is, the contestant should put effort into making their appearance impressive. Which, I also find offensive, but to a lesser degree.

I'd propose that they certainly aren't "sport" sneakers, which is what she got dinged for. Unless you're a multi-millionaire playing tennis in a country club, I guess -- but the only reason a person would wear those particular shoes in sport would be to impress their peers.

And if you're not personally impressed by money, how would you interpret the "dress to impress" guideline? Would you find any shoes to be impressive? Perhaps no shoes at all? I'd lean towards 6" platforms, myself, as some people find tallness impressive.
Agreed. With some decades of Java experience, I would only use Eclipse or IntelliJ or similar to develop non-trivial Java programs.
Probably because I got used to it.

I had used 'desktop' in the past - like 1998-2008 - but later as I got laptop and needed to be more 'mobile' the laptop was more desired.

Then I 'spent' many years (2012-2022) on a couch with IKEA laptop stand - that worked too.

Lately when I have finally done a proper desk again - I added some 'desktop' for either FreeBSD package building with Poudriere or for some casual gaming as AMD Ryzen 1700 with 8C/16T and AMD Radeon 5700 does quite good job at it.

... and I do not use just 'any' laptops. I still use ThinkPad XY20 series from 2011 - they all have that great 7-row keyboard and are VERY usable.

As for the upgrades of the hardware - mine ThinkPad W520 can have TWO 2.5 disks at the same time and additional THIRD disk in mSATA port. I also have 4 RAM slots - populated at maximum 32 GB total ... and about a price? Its possible to get one for $200-$300 range.

Even if you want something more modern - like ThinkPad T495 with AMD Ryzen - I recently got one for $240 - along with 4 cores and 16 GB RAM. I also got ThinkPad T14 with 6C/12T AMD Ryzen also with 16 GB RAM for $260. These are not expensive toys ...
Ada 95 added bit ordering.

https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/95rat/...

https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/95lrm/...
I question whether that's relevant to the topic. Being next door to your friends and family (the article) and being a 10 mile drive from friends and family are not the same thing. In one you see each and interact with each other daily. In the other, probably at most once a month.

I lived 7 miles from a close friend. I liked getting to go to his place once a month or so. He lives in a large apartment complex. One friend moved into the same building. They see each other several times a week and his children go over to visit these friends whenever they feel like it. Similarly another friend moved a block away and they see each other far more regularly.
Very few of which are needed or even wanted for lower level mcu development. I assume when the gp was talking about spinning things they were talking about ESC software.
All three sentences or only the one about chess?
Thanks for timely reminder that Anathem was more than just a much needed upgrade of The Glass Bead Game (besides getting rid of the neuroses while covering roughly the same themes, Neal also shipped his signature thought-provoking gimmicks, more effectively helping to stem the dumbdown than Hesse)
It's wild to me that this is one of the biggest/most serious breaches ever (that's still active!) and our response to it is "use iMessage or WhatsApp" with basically no press time.
Except a typical Jupyter environment -especially the one provided to ChatGPT- includes a lot of libraries; including numpy, scipy, pandas and plotly, which -while perhaps not quite as polished as wolphram (arguments can be made), can still rival it qua flexibility and functionality.

That and you need to actually expose python to GPT somehow, and Jupyter is not the worst way I suppose.

* The fact that Jupyter holds on to state means GPT doesn't need to write code from scratch for every step of the process.

* GPT can easily read back through the workbook to review errors or output from computations. GPT actually tries to correct errors even. Especially if it knows how to identify them.

To be sure, this is not magic. Consider it more like a tool with limited intelligence; but which can be controlled using natural language.

(Meanwhile, Anthropic allows Claude to run js with react, which is nice but seems less flexible in practice. I'm not sure Claude reads back.)
Before the invasion Ukraine had a total military force (including reserves) of 1.2 million backed by sizable numbers of highly motivated and heavily armed 'nationalist' forces. Since 2014 the West had been gradually arming Ukraine and various cities like Bakhmut were essentially fortified citadels enabling a defensive force to pose extreme resistance.

There was 0 chance Ukraine was going to just flop over. Iraq and Afghanistan were humble villages by contrast - one which we lost to, and the other which our 'victory' amounted to bombing the government then hiding out in tiny little ultra fortified 'green zones' while waving a victory flag. In both cases with the wars dragged on for decades. Now imagine if Russia had decided to jump in one of those invasions and start shipping hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons to them, providing intelligence, and so on.

Russia obviously just thought they were ambushing Ukraine and could get some agreement for them to not join NATO without a real war. Then the West decided to get involved, similarly thinking they were ambushing Russia and that the first sight of HIMARS or a Panther tank would send the Russian army scattering.

Everybody was wrong, so we got a real war that nobody wanted.
International Law is not a law like city, county, state, national laws. There's no court and enforcement agency that can just enforce it. It's a set of agreements between countries. Enforcement (if any) is done by countries based on the goals of those countries. There's no sense of honor here. Yes breaking international law to punish others breaking international law happens, and is sometimes the only reasonable action to take.
But surely you can see that the economy does not serve us. Who is "us", anyway?

The economy, and the worldwide technological system that it fuels, behaves like its own organism with its own ultimate goal unbeknownst to us.

By looking around you, is it not perfectly clear to you too that it does not have anything to do with the well-being of people?
The USA is a large place. I've had bikes stolen (last case 40 years ago - the bikes were left outside unlocked for 5 years and only once were any stolen), but that is all from your list. In every place I've lived some of my neighbors never locked their doors when they left. I have always known people who just leave their keys in their car when they leave it. I lock my front door, but the garage doesn't have a lock and there are some expensive things in there.

Which is to say I find the US is a high trust society where I live. I know there are other places where things are much worse.
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Catellus comes to mind. I guess some phrasing of “butt-boy” is due.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Catullus_16
Dupe from ten hours previous:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42527572
I returned a Crucial P3+ after I discovered a massive performance degradation with Bitlocker. It was slower than spinning rust. Seems these drives have some unresolved firmware issues.
Wow, you must have a big IQ